Bad bad BAD Rock Band 2 glitch

[The Chupster]

So, so pissed.

So I play a lot of local multiplayer on Rock Band 2 with Tams. We likes the Rock Band. Well, till now anyway- now I'm just pissed.

We start it up as usual last night. Right off the bat, when it normally loads all of the game info, it asks me if I want to overwrite my save- instead of just loading it as normal. I was like, sure, I guess, dunno why, but what can it hurt?

So we play for a good couple of hours, get pretty far in Band World Tour, determined to get an airplane before we stop playing. We're using my band- Wet Fart Riot- consisting of my 4 characters, each of whom are decked to the nines (or at least as far as they can be with the limited cash I've unlocked so far, but it's more paint and tats than items): Chupa on drums, Minion on bass, Bloodraven on vocals, Midnite Blue (can't be Midnight as it has 'nig' in it, which 'isn't considered classy' by the game) on guitar. Tonight, we've got Tams's girl Titz Magee standing in on guitar.

So we play and play, and then outta nowhere, the game just freezes. No big, I mean, it happens occasionally- first time it's happened to RB2, but y'know, whatever. We reset the 360. We reload the game.

When the game loads and we start Tour mode, we notice something... bad. Instead of my band's name- Wet Fart Riot- sitting underneath "Chupacabra24" as usual, it has the same band name as Tamara's- Homicidal Chipmonks II. WTF???

So I check my data. Sure enough, Homicidal Chipmonks II is the only band on my save, and Titz Magee is the only character on my save. Apparently, whatever overwrite it had me do at the beginning of our play session loaded up my characters, and then saved her stuff over mine.

Boom. Gone. A week and a half of work, at least 3 hours on designs and shit, multiple hours playing the lower gigs to make some cash- all just gone.


So if you play with people locally, do NOT- under ANY circumstances- say "yes" to an overwrite of any kind. If the game is working correctly, it'll autosave and you'll never need to overwrite anything. I still have no idea why it would've done that to begin with, but I've got a few good hours of remaking my characters to think about it and figure it out.

Sadness.

[The Chupster]

Happened again- at least this time, I had the sense to not make the full versions of everyone.

Apparently it's a pretty widespread problem- there's a 10-page forum thread on the Rock Band forums about it, and they're looking into it, so I imagine there'll be a patch sometime.

In the meantime, I just went ahead and deleted my game save and started over with just the Chupster, so far. Only real bitch is that the band name gets registered on Live, so when the band goes poof, the name becomes unavailable (except for offline, but it means that you can't compete in online challenges or anything).

What a suckfest. So far I've managed to work around by spelling the band name a few different ways, but jeez.

[KAVEEKS]

HOly crap that sucks. I've been working on a few characters trying to get enough money for each one to buy the crap that you want to buy for them and if they all got deleted now after hours of work... I'd just go nuts. not to mention all the time I spent on tattoos and Kunk's face paint. I'd flip the fuck out.

I'd better go check out that post on the rock band forum so I can avoid that because I'd toss my damn game out the window if it happened at this point

It takes so long to get money and you can't share it with each of your characters. I hate that aspect of the game. And you have to play through stuff like 7 song sets where they throw one of my fucking metallica downloads as the last song and I can't freaking beat it!!! So other six songs I got 4 or 5 stars on don't even count and wasted like a half hour getting no money! That happened again when they threw chop suey at me at the end of a set and I was like FUCK NO! I beat chop suey once but that shit is hard.